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TOY PISTOL. No. 420,068. Patented Jan. 28, 1890.

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UNITED STATES:

PATENT OFFICE.

LUOIAN HILL, OF WVORCESTER, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO EDWARD K. HILL, OF SAME PLACE.

TOY PISTOL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Iiatent No. 420,068, dated January 28, 1890.

I Application filed May 31, 1889- 2 Serial No. 312,815- (No model.) 7

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LUCIAN HILL, a citizen of the United States, residing at lVorcester, in the county of \Vorcester and State of Massachusetts, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Toy Pistols, of which the following, ,together with the accompanymg drawings, is a specification sufficiently full, clear, and exact to enable persons skilled in the art to which this invention appertains .to make and use the same.

This invention relates to certain improve ments in the construction of toys of that class described in Letters Patent No. 358,664,11egetofore granted me, the objects of my present invention being to provide a more efficient and desirable toy pistol for producing a loud report, or for throwing a projectile by the flexure of a dished or rimbound spring plate or diaphragm, and to so arrange and combine the said diaphragm with the supporting-frame and operating parts as to give freedom of action, facility for manipulation, and to produce a loud report; also, to facilitate the convenience and economy of manufacture.

To this endmy invention consists in a toy pistol the parts of which are constructed and arranged substantially as illustrated and eX- Referring to parts, A denotes the hilt, stock, or handle; B, the barrel, which two parts constitute the frame for supporting the dished spring-plate or rim-bound diaphragm O, and D is the cook or actuating-lever for moving the diaphragm.

The hilt A is best made of cast metal, with a suitably-curved rear end, a slot d, for the passage of the cocking-lever, and a circular away, as at h.

disk or rounded attaching-seat a, corresponding withthe diaphragm form. 'The part be:

low the seating-surface is curved backward, as at a.

The diaphragm O is preferably of invertedpear shape, as shown in Fig. 5. Its wider portion is centrally stretched or dished, as at c, and its narrow depending portion is provided with an opening 0 for the connection therewith of the cocking-lever D, which latter is best punched from sheet metal, in subseat 13 at its rear end which corresponds with the shape of the seat a on the hilt and with the top of the diaphragm O. The diaphragm C is disposed substantially perpendicular or transversely to the axis of the barrel, and is secured in position by clamping its rim or the upper part of its peripheral edge between the circular seats on the hilt and barrel. The seating-surfaces give pressure on the diaphragm C only near the edges around the upper part, leaving the springing center 0 of the diaphragm and its lower projecting portion 0 free for flexure,so that the dished portion can be sprung forward or backward at pleasure. The hilt and barrel are connected by screws F, that pass through the disk a and through holes f in the diaphragm and screw into holes f in the end of the barrel-cylinder, or by other suitable fastenings. The lower part of the cylinder is best out The barrel is provided with an opening or bore 1?, which terminates directly forward of the dished portion of the diaphragm, the barrel being fixed as close to the diaphragm as can be conveniently done without allowing it to come in contact therewith. An annular recess or sounding-chainher I is preferably formed at the inner end of the cylinder about the bore of the barrel IOC ' and forward of the diaphragm. This chamher I can in some instances be omitted, if desired.

In the operation, when the cocking-lever D is drawn back by the thumb placed on its head, the lower end thereof bends the lower end of the diaphragm or plate 0 forward, as in Fig. 1, springing the dished center of the diaphragm to the rear. A projectile can be then inserted in the bore 1) against the face;

of the diaphragm. Then by placing the finger on the projecting lower end of the diaphragm and drawing it back as a trigger the =dia-g phragm is bent backward, as in Fig. 2, there.

by springing the dished center to the front and forcibly ejecting the projectile from the barrel and at the same time producing the? loud report due to the snapping of the dia- The manner of producing the phragm. sound by a diaphragm is explained in my former patent above named.

The barrel portion 13 is best made of wood, as that gives a more resonant report than metal, and it can also be economically produced. A metallic appearance can be given to it by japanning or other suitablefinish.

In Figs. 6 and 7 I have illustrated a method. of securing the diaphragm otherwise than by f In this the edge of the diaphragm screws. is held by an arch-shaped wedge J, driven into a recess formed in the frame at the front of the diaphragm-seat. In this case the cylindrical portion is made integral with the hilt A or connected therewith at the sides, as 7 shown at m m, Fig. 7.

It will be understood that I do not herein broadly claim a toy pistol having a rim-bound diaphragm for producing sound by fleX-ure thereof, as such is the subject of my former patent; but my present claims relate to the im proved construction set forth and described.

What I claim as of my present invention to be secured by Letters Patent, is-

1-. The toy pistol having the dished springdiaphragm disposed with its iplane substan tially perpendicular ortransverse to the axis of the barrel, the rim at its upper portion rigidly secured between the hilt and barrel parts,-and with its lower portion depending below the frame in position to serve as a trigger for flexing said diaphragm, substantially as set forth.

2. The toy pistol provided with the dished spring-diaphragm having a portion of its rim rigidly supported by the frame and an extended portion free for .flexure in combination with the handled frame, and an actuating-lever attached to the free portion-of said diaphragm for giving flexu-re thereof, substantially as set forth.

3. The improved toy "pistol having the dished spring-diaphragm, its upper portion peripherally supported between the barrel and hilt portions of the frame, with its center free for backward and forward springing action, its lower end extending below'the frame and free for flexure, and the actuatinglever attached to the flexible lower end of said diaphragm and projecting above the handle, substantially as-shown,for operationas set forth.

4. The toy pistol having the barrel B, the r hilt portion A, with supporting-disk a, the flexible diaphragmC, fixed transversely be-- tween said hilt and barrel, with the bore of the barrel terminating in front of the dished center of said diaphragm, and thediap'hragmactuating lever attached to the lower-edgeof LUCIAN HILL. I

Witnesses:

CHAS. H. BURLEIGH, ELLA P. BLENUS. 

